Brandy N Carie

Brandy N Carie

Playwright. Screenwriter. Director. Dramatic Writing MFA, Carnegie Mellon University 2020.

Awards: SLOAN/CMU Screenwriting Competition, Kennedy Center ACTF Steinberg Playwriting Award, Princess Grace finalist.
Commissions: Alter Ego Chamber Opera.
Residencies: SPACE on Ryder Farm, the Edward Albee Foundation, National Winter Playwrights Retreat, Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat....
Playwright. Screenwriter. Director. Dramatic Writing MFA, Carnegie Mellon University 2020.

Awards: SLOAN/CMU Screenwriting Competition, Kennedy Center ACTF Steinberg Playwriting Award, Princess Grace finalist.
Commissions: Alter Ego Chamber Opera.
Residencies: SPACE on Ryder Farm, the Edward Albee Foundation, National Winter Playwrights Retreat, Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat.
Productions: New Opera West, Everyday Inferno Theater, Off-Book Club with Bricolage Production Company, Mildred's Umbrella, Collective 48.
Development: Barter Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Pittsburgh’s City Theatre, Kennedy Center, Northlight Theatre, Mildred's Umbrella.

Plays

  • HOW TO LIVE FOREVER by Brandy N Carie
    Cast: 
    8–100
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: wellness, witches + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, political, science fiction
    Keyword: wellness, witches, magic, feminism, midwife, time travel, abortion, pro-choice, gender
    When 1590s midwife Anne links across time with modern-day wellness guru Gwendolyn, they struggle to rewrite a 14th century witch trial that has already reached a verdict. Anne’s protégé Bridget flees to the 21st century to escape persecution following an abortion, but is dismayed to find the present so like the past. Through interweaving narratives spanning continents and centuries, HOW TO LIVE FOREVER depicts...
    When 1590s midwife Anne links across time with modern-day wellness guru Gwendolyn, they struggle to rewrite a 14th century witch trial that has already reached a verdict. Anne’s protégé Bridget flees to the 21st century to escape persecution following an abortion, but is dismayed to find the present so like the past. Through interweaving narratives spanning continents and centuries, HOW TO LIVE FOREVER depicts six women as they seek forgotten magic to craft a brighter future.
  • TOMORROW GAME by Brandy N Carie
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, science fiction + 1 more
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    Keyword: Survival, post-apocalyptic + 8 more
    Genre: drama, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: Survival, post-apocalyptic, nuclear fallout, Hunger, Radiation, fear, intimacy, loneliness, women, environmental disasters
    Part of the BUNKER CYCLE.
    Bell and Roe live in a postapocalyptic wasteland that is so far gone they don’t even remember a time when there were grocery stores, safe drinking water, or 911. They each live in isolation, until they happen to meet. Bell shows Roe a game: take of your mask and see if you can breathe. Try this vegetable, and see if you wake up. Read a poem. Do more than just not-die. Bell may...
    Part of the BUNKER CYCLE.
    Bell and Roe live in a postapocalyptic wasteland that is so far gone they don’t even remember a time when there were grocery stores, safe drinking water, or 911. They each live in isolation, until they happen to meet. Bell shows Roe a game: take of your mask and see if you can breathe. Try this vegetable, and see if you wake up. Read a poem. Do more than just not-die. Bell may also have ulterior motives. Roe’s shelter is stocked with years worth of canned goods and other priceless resources. Is their friendship true–or just another game?
  • EVERYBODY'S DEAD: A COMEDY by Brandy N Carie
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: apocalypse, Bunker + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, science fiction
    Keyword: apocalypse, Bunker, Survival, Preppers, loneliness, futuristic, sisterhood, women
    Part of the BUNKER CYCLE.
    Annika is the multi-millionaire CEO of a doomsday prepper subscription box service. She is also trapped inside the massive custom bunker that she built to house herself…and her sex robot…and no one else! At all! After receiving a notification that nuclear apocalypse was imminent, Annika retreated to her bunker, bringing no one with her whatsoever. That was two years ago. Now,...
    Part of the BUNKER CYCLE.
    Annika is the multi-millionaire CEO of a doomsday prepper subscription box service. She is also trapped inside the massive custom bunker that she built to house herself…and her sex robot…and no one else! At all! After receiving a notification that nuclear apocalypse was imminent, Annika retreated to her bunker, bringing no one with her whatsoever. That was two years ago. Now, she’s suffering from cabin fever and skyrocketing guilt over the people–especially the cute guy guy–she left behind to die in a radioactive holocaust! What a riot! Time to get out of here!
  • the end and the end and the end by Brandy N Carie
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4–30
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 5 more
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    Keyword: apocalypse, post-apocalyptic + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, experimental, movement/physical, political, satire, tragedy
    Keyword: apocalypse, post-apocalyptic, America, Survival, the end of the world, disaster, ensemble
    Part of the BUNKER CYCLE.
    It's the end of the world as we know it and it's the end of the world as we know it and it's the end of the world as we know it and America is in ruins and everything is changing and no one is safe. Over. And over. And over. A meditation on epoch, "we," and the meaning of "the end."
  • GUNS IN TREES by Brandy N Carie
    Cast: 
    10
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: America, Survival + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: America, Survival, Bunker, death, loss, Talking Animals, Preppers, Minnesota, Beavers, nature
    Part of the BUNKER CYCLE.
    Minnesota beavers Reggie and Ronnie try to build a lodge before the frost sets in–and Ronnie tries to convince Reggie that it’s ok to be small, and it’s better to be safe than brave and dead. Meanwhile, human Al goes home from the big city to find that her family are full-fledged doomsday preppers now–just like on TV! Al tries to connect with her family members, and get a little...
    Part of the BUNKER CYCLE.
    Minnesota beavers Reggie and Ronnie try to build a lodge before the frost sets in–and Ronnie tries to convince Reggie that it’s ok to be small, and it’s better to be safe than brave and dead. Meanwhile, human Al goes home from the big city to find that her family are full-fledged doomsday preppers now–just like on TV! Al tries to connect with her family members, and get a little side action, but her siblings hate her and Hank the hot neighbor just wants to treat her right. A play about whiteness, family, and death.
  • WHAT THE LADIES DO by Brandy N Carie
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: Farce, gender + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, period, satire
    Keyword: Farce, gender, ladies
    Three proper 19th century ladies (cousins, in fact!) sit in interminable boredom, embroidering, reading the Bible in Latin, smoking cigarettes, and getting naked. Being a good girl and a lady is a full time job, but Elizabeth knows what God wants them to do.
  • KRAV MAGA! by Brandy N Carie
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, movement/physical + 1 more
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    Keyword: Krav Maga, violence + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, movement/physical, romantic comedy
    Keyword: Krav Maga, violence, gender, intimacy, Sex, consent, Relationships, fight, Texas, anxiety
    When Monica begins taking Krav Maga as a self-defense class (and also a form of therapy) she starts to believe in a version of herself that is confident, strong, empowered. Then she punches multiple people that she loves in the face, and has to deal with the consequences. Krav Maga! explores intimacy, love, and the rules of dating through a lens of exercise, violence, and food.
  • A Short Life of Trouble: A Play with Appalachian Folk Music by Brandy N Carie
    Cast: 
    11–20
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    Genre: drama, fable/folktale + 4 more
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    Keyword: adult fairy tale, American Folk Music + 3 more
    Genre: drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, musical, period, tragedy
    Keyword: adult fairy tale, American Folk Music, gender, sisterhood, changelings
    Susan's mother has always believed that Susan is a changeling, but Susan's sister Bernice has protected and befriended her all their lives. Now that Susan is about to get married, she is more and more restless--does she really belong here? could she belong somewhere else? She goes in search of faeries, and when she finds them, new questions arise: Can she ever belong anywhere? A play with traditional...
    Susan's mother has always believed that Susan is a changeling, but Susan's sister Bernice has protected and befriended her all their lives. Now that Susan is about to get married, she is more and more restless--does she really belong here? could she belong somewhere else? She goes in search of faeries, and when she finds them, new questions arise: Can she ever belong anywhere? A play with traditional Appalachian folk music, set in the isolated hills of 1890s Appalachia.
    Written to be (ideally) performed outdoors.